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By Living Legacy Project
In this five-part webinar series, we'll be introducing you to five civil rights activists who impacted the movement from behind the scenes. Join us as we explore the incredible contributions of these lesser-known figures in the Civil Rights Movement:
April 24, 2024 - Bob Zellner
May 29, 2024 - Dorothy Cotton
April 28, 2024 - Bayard Rustin
September 25, 2024 - Zoharah Simmons
October 23, 2024 - Pauli Murray
For more information and to register, visit www.livinglegacypilgrimage.org.
To Speak a Defiant Word
Pauli Murray,
Michael Eric Dyson,
Anthony B Pinn
Hardback
$35.00
$32.55
Anthony B. Pinn has collected Pauli Murray's most important sermons, lectures, and speeches from 1960 through 1985, showcasing her religious thought and activism as well as her original and compassionate literary voice.
Song in a Weary Throat
Pauli Murray,
Patricia Bell-Scott
Paperback
$22.95
$21.34
Now, more than thirty years after her death in 1985, Pauli Murray--poet, memoirist, lawyer, activist, and Episcopal priest--gains long-deserved recognition through a rediscovered memoir that serves as a "powerful witness" (Brittney Cooper) to a pivotal era in the American twentieth century.
Stayed on Freedom
Dan Berger
Hardback
$32.00
$29.76
The story of Zoharah and Michael Simmons. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews, Stayed On Freedom is a moving and intimate portrait of two people trying to make a life while working to make a better world.
Unstoppable
Michael G. Long,
Bea Jackson
Hardback
$18.99
$17.66
This powerful and triumphant picture book biography tells the story of how openly gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin defied prejudice as he planned and organized the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington
Carole Boston Weatherford,
Rob Sanders,
Byron McCray
Hardback
$19.99
$18.59
A singular, richly illustrated picture book biography of Bayard Rustin, the gay Black man behind the March on Washington of 1963, by the acclaimed authors of Unspeakable: the Tulsa Race Massacre and Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag.
I Must Resist
Bayard Rustin,
Julian Bond,
Michael G Long
Paperback
$26.95
$25.06
"Bayard Rustin's courageously candid letters, most of which have never before been available to researchers, provide fascinating glimpses into the private life of one of history's most reticent public figures."--Clayborne Carson, Founding Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University
If Your Back's Not Bent
Dorothy F. Cotton,
Andrew Young,
Vincent Harding
Paperback
$21.99
$20.45
A timely account of fighting inequality, If Your Back's Not Bent shows how The Citizenship Education Program (CEP), directed by Dorothy Cotton, was key to the civil rights movement's success and how the lessons of the program can serve our troubled democracy now.
Time on Two Crosses
Bayard Rustin,
Walter Naegle,
Devon W. Carbado ,
Paperback
$32.95
$30.64
Time on Two Crosses offers an insider's view of many of the defining political moments of our time. From Gandhi's impact on African Americans, white supremacists in Congress, and the assassination of Malcolm X to Rustin's never-before-published essays on Louis Farrakhan, affirmative action, and the call for gay rights, Time on Two Crosses chronicles five decades of Rustin's commitment to justice and equality.
The Wrong Side of Murder Creek
Bob Zellner,
Constance Curry,
Julian Bond
Paperback
$25.95
$24.13
The Wrong Side of Murder Creek, winner of the 2009 Lillian Smith Book Award, is Bob Zellner's larger-than-life story.
Register for one or all programs of the webinar series at livinglegacypilgrimage.org. Registration is free and donations are accepted.